Oshawa Times (1958-), 1 Feb 1967, p. 1

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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 96 -- NO. 26 She Oshawa Sime 10¢ Single Copy SSe Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1967 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash Weather Report Colder air will move into Cen- tral Ontario clearing skies, Developing storm will move toward Great Lakes, Low to- night 28, high Thursday, 32. THIRTY-FOUR PAGES 60,000 Off Jobs, Quebec | MONTREAL (CP)--More than 16,000 Quebecers are on strike today and more than 6,000 oth- ers are scheduled to walk out within 12 days in a widespread bid for higher pay Several thousand others who cannot or do not wish to strike are either conducting or have scheduled a variety of work slowdowns. Demands for better pay and improved working conditions ap-| pear common to all the disputes! which involve teachers, civic! workers, doctors interning at} hospitals, policemen and others. Several unions are involved. Montreal, where city hall has been shut by a strike of cleri- cal workers, is hardiest hit, but labor unrest had erupted in other parts of the province as well. MOST STRIKE-RIDDEN Workers who have walked out, helping to make Quebec the most strike - ridden area in Canada, include: --About 11,000 Roman Catho- lic teachers, in--Montreal- who out Jan. 13, whose strikes have deprived more than 270,000 children of classroom instruc- tion. About 4,500 clerical workers employed by the City of Mont- real, who walked 'off Mon- day, closing city hall to conk out the machinery of munici- pal government. Workers who have set strike dates and are conducting or are considering work slowdowns include: --About 5,000 manual work- ers employed by the City of Montreal, who plan to walk out Feb. 10 if .the city does not increase their pay by $1.25 an hour. --About 3,550 city policemen, why are to meet Wednesday to reconsider a pay offer they once rejected. The police do not have the right to strike but have threatened work-to- rule slowdowns. --More than 2.100 interns and resident doctors at 43 teach- ing hospitals, who started a 24-hour slowdown Tuesday in an attempt to force the prov- incial government to increase their salaries, |GAS EMPLOYEES OUT Others on strike include 250 provincial civil servants who walked out in Montreal Tuesday |ployees of the Quebec Natural | went since last Nov. 21. | Others scheduled to strike in-| clude 670 Roman Catholic teach- ers in the Granby area east of Montreal, who are to walk out Wednesday, and 562 Catholic} teachers in the Montreal sub-| urb of Verdun, who have set! Feb. 12 as their strike date. Canadian Bankers Ask For Reciprocal Freedom OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadian banks said Tuesday their free- dom to operate around the world must be reciprocated by allowing at least some branch or agency operations of foreign banks in Canada, He said the true issue has been obscured by the current controversy over an amend- ment that will halt the growth of the Mercantile Bank of Can- ada, a subsidiary since 0 the First National City Bank of This common theme was ex-|New York and the only foreign- {and 800 Montreal service em-| including 9,000) Gas Corp., who have been off! | | | A hearty 'welcome to Oshawa" was extended last to Gordon E. Willey (centre), the newly-chosen president of the Ontario- Durham College of Applied | night OSHAWA WELCOMES COLLEGE PRESIDENT Arts and Technology which will be opened in the city in September this year. At a reception at the Oshawa Golf Club, Mr. Willey chats with Stanley Norton (left) Willey assumes his new position on March 1. At present he is in charge of research and development at Union Carbide Canada of the Ontario Department of Education and Stewart Alger, chairman of the board of governors of the community. college. Mr. 4 ed HOLLAND MAY BUY jbut the government { Ltd. He is the holder of an | MA degree and a PhD from the University of Toronto. --Oshawa Times Photo Standards Softened By U.S. On Car Safety DETROIT (AP) --The U.S. government has softened its car safety standards. The commerce department withdrew Tuesday three of the original 23 standards, which had drawn strong protests from the auto makers when they were announced last Dec. 3. In a compromise move, the other original 20 standards were toned down, and the industry was given an extra four months in which to put them on 1968 line was next Sept. 1, but it was extended to next Jan. 1. Withdrawn for further study were two proposed standards dealing with tires and rims and one requiring headrests to pro: tect. riders from whiplash in- jury. Lowell K. Bridwell, acting un- derseeretary of commerce for transportation, called the 20 standards "a substantial step forward," adding that every | model cars. The original dead- them by next Jan. 1. | pressed by all seven home-|owned bank in Canada. owned banks, although their | separate policy statements re-| FAIRNESS IS KEY vealed some differences in ap-|, He said the real problem is Doctors' Strike Threat proach. the fair treatment of banking Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed set off the safety furore, weak. The statements were made interests in the 39 countries Pegged As Exaggeration where Canadian banks operate! 229 branches and agencies. | current amendments to the! The whole Position of the Ca-| Bank Act. nadian government in interna-| Robert M. Macintosh, joint tional economic affairs is in- general manager of the Bank of|Vlved, Mr. MacIntosh said. Nova Scotia, made a vigorous} Canada's open-economy policy case against what he called "a advocated easy movement of restrictive or nationalistic ap-|capital, goods and people. To proach to treatment of foreign keep out foreign banks entirely banks." was to defeat this policy. Tots Drown before the Commons finance committee, which is studying not be transferred from the Col- TORONTO (CP) -- Officials lege of Physicians to govern- of the Ontario Medical Associa- tion said Tuesday a report that! ment. doctors have threatened to! The committee also said the strike in Ontario over govern-| fee-for-service system of pay- ment medical care insurance is} ment must not be replaced by a exaggerated. |salary or a fee based on the The Medical Post, a trade | number of patients served; and magazine published by Ma-|that no medical plan should in- clean - Hunter, reported in ajterfere with the doctor's right story on a midwinter OMA com-|to treat his patient according to mittee meeting that the OMA the patient's need. threatens strike action. No Poison Gas, t t Dr. Ross Matthews of Peter-| borough, president of the OMA,| was asked whether the four- month extension would be mean- unveiled in September and Oc- kind of car in October and an- other he said. 'But a whole new kind a PLEAD FOR MORE TIME bile Manufacturing Association} Viet War Un WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dip- lomat historian Edwin 0. Reischauer says Ho Chi Minh could have led all Vietnam without menacing United States interests if policy errors had not locked the U.S. in a Vietnam ar, The war should have been However, auto critic Ralph called the standards Nader said Dr. William Had-|" don, the national traffic safety |avoided, said the former U.S. administrator, had given in tojambassador to Japan, but the Says Diplomat- Historian reasonable, I U.S. cannot quit now because the auto industry and that the it is'in a narrow passage "and industry had failed to detail its objections sufficiently. Earlier, can't walk backwards." 23 proposals the minimum that} 0 should be required. called three major policy errors The automotive big three--|of the last two decades which Ford Motor Co., General Mo-jled to the present Vietnam situ- tors Corp. and Chrysler Corp.--| ation: said they would reserve com- ment until the revisions could be thoroughly studied. --"We just stumbled sort of bit by bit into supporting French colonialism,"' begin-, ning in 1945. --The U.S. stepped "into the unsound situation the French left behind them" after their defeat by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. --The U.S. increased its troop commitment in 1961 from 800 advisers to 17,000. "This in- creased the stakes. It would have been a lot less damaging if we had taken our losses and pulled out then." |SUGGESTS EASE UP Reischauer's rec 0 mmenda- |tions: a prudent de-escalation of One U.S. auto industry source ngful since 1968 cars would be ober. "It's possible to put out one t in February assuming here were only minor changes," f automobile, that's something Ise." The companies and Automo- Reischauer, now a state de- auto manufacturer could meet|Nader had termed the originaljpartment adviser and Harvard niversity historian, cited in an terview Tuesday what he and Lillian Hannen of Toronto, believing they could resurrect jthe girl by prayer, neglected to winced Mr. H jeall a doctor, an inquest jury ped |decided Tuesday night. 105 JETS - THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- | The 601,000,000 - guilder figure The Netherlands has placed aj includes the cost of spare parts, provisional order in Canada for|ground equipment and elec- 105 Borthrop CF-5 jet fighter) tronic apparatus, he added. planes at a total cost of 601,-) 000,000 guilders, (about $180,- 000,000), Defence Minister Pet- rus de Jong told a press con ference here today, The order requires proval of the Dutch parliament, and the The planes would be built by Canadair Ltd Although the aircraft would be built in Canada, a -substantial the ap-|sum would be in The | Netherlands for the purchase of Dutch - built parts. A Dutch Northrop Corp. have issued and| mission will visit Ottawa next accepted a letter of intent, the|week to negotiate this matter minister said. |with Northrop, de Jong said of Montreal, spent Pneumonia Verdict As Parents Prayed TORONTO (CP) -- Twenty-;their calling medical help when month-old Terri Lynn Hannen|their children are ill. died of a common case of pneu- monia last Dec. 20 because her "T never saw such faith," Mrs, |Materick said. The Hannens and Matericks prayed together until mid-after- noon when Mr. Materick cone annen to call a doo. tor by quoting a Bible passage. | Mr. Materick testified he be- lieves in medical science and never advises- anyone to stay away from a doctor. "But I've seen many miracles." Mao Forces MAY RECUR | Claim Rout "It disturbs me to think that}. ToKYO (AP) -- Wall posters if it happened again they could/in Peking claimed today that not see it again because their/Mao Tse - tung's forces have observation is clouded by their/routed opposition troops in ture beliefs,"' the doctor said. bulent Sinkiang province, site of The Hannens are members of/China's nuclear weapons tests, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman The jury recommended that the care of the Hannens' three surviving daughters, aged 12, 6 and 3, be supervised by the Children's Aid Society. | Dr. H. W. Bain, physician-in-| chief of the Hospital for Sick Children here, testified that the form of pneumonia that killed Terri Lynn is easily controllable by antibiotics. the Independent Assemblies of/and have captured a fifth ma- God, Full Gospel, headed by the/jor city in another part of EDWIN 0. REISCHAUER . » « Diplomat Historian Rev. Anthony E. Materick of|China. Preston, Ont., who described the The Peking correspondent for dle without formal peace nego- tiations--a prospect he consid- ers slim. to Vietnam would be tremen- dously worried if we were to p ' as getting in." group as not a denomination but a fellowship of born-again and|Japan's Kyodo news service re- the war, perhaps with a halt in| blood-washed Christians. U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. If the combat could be eased, he war might gradually dwin- L "The countries that are close ull out," Reischauer said. ',. . Getting out 'is not as easy For the years ahead, Reisch- groups in Hamilton, Woodbridge, Doon and Brantford, all in On tario. | 20 but that no doctor was called} until 2:30 the next afternoon. prayed for God to resurrect the girl. areas. The Bank of Nova Scotia fa- U.S. problem was to ignore im- |portant relations with develop- jing countries, the European Common Market and other In Humber pie granting annual licences © (CP) -- The fast-/f0r foreign bank branches or Bs ange Jeo on the | agencies in two or three major city's west side took the lives | Canadian cities. | | | | of two children Tuesday as they CBA MEMBERS DIFFER open water. .|tion on the matter because of Laurence Robertson, 4, SliP-|the differences among its mem- and two playmates were throw-| policy. ing pieces of snow into the river. | the Robertson youngster heard the screams of John Bayens) | ton, had been drawn to the area ; by the sound of the rescue| "* DIDN'T DANCE | Young Bayens was saved just; Fraser, 17, of Halifax was before he slipped under the ice,| fined $20 Tuesday after ready been drawn below the| surface. | was in the water until two hours | later when John recovered 'suf- | out: "Vivian fell in and drown-| ded." today for Laurence Robertson. Vivian's body was found Tues- pleading guilty to an assault charge laid after a disturb- ance at a local dance. Fraser admitted assault- ing Reginal Jones while try- ing to cut in for a dance with Jones's partner. "Did you dance with the girl" Judge E. D. Murray asked him. : "IT never had time," re- plied Fraser. played on an ice ledge near he CRA did not tke pon: ped into the open water as he hers Some wanted a fh yt Five hours later, searchers for . who, along with Vivian Knowl-| HE CUT IN... work. | HALIFAX (CP) -- Brian but five-year-old Vivian had al- Rescuers were not aware she . ficiently in hospital and blurted) Police continued their search day night. said Tuesday that "at this point| we are not talking about strike) action," Dr. Glenn Sawyer, OMA gen- eral secretary, said there had) been a misinterpretation in the! magazine article. | The report made by the OMA} committee listed areas of spe-| cial concern to doctors which| they feel should not be violated by government medical insur- ance, Dr. Sawyer said. LIST ITEMS OF CONCERN The areas listed included: 1..The plan should not deny benefits to persons seeking the services of doctors who did not deal directly with the plan. 2. .Participating physicians' agreements should not be im- posed on the entire profession. 3. Doctors should not be de- nied the right to bill either the patient or the plan, nor the right to collect fees from a pa- tient if the plan did not make payment in full. 4. A fee schedule for the pro- fessionals should not be made a matter for negotiation or arbi- tration. 5. Boards dominated by non- medical people should not be established. {sent mounds of data to Haddon| in support of their claims that auer made this appeal: "Let us not do this again. Let ported the posters said Mao's supporters were "'in full control of the provincial capital of Ur- "lumeht and Shihhotze," cities where Mao's opponents had been reported putting up suc- cessful resistance to the Mao- lists' attempts to take control of beostng é Kyodo said the wall poster re- Both Mr. and Mrs. Hannen in-|dispatches Jan. 31 from pro- He said he leads Bible study The jury was told that Terri uynn died about 9 p.m. on Dec. In the meantime, the Hannens ports were based on telephone sisted in their testimony their|Maoists in Urumchi to pro-Mao religious beliefs don't forbid'Red Guards in Peking. © Egyptians Say : CAIRO (AP) -- The Egyptian government has denied charges that its forces in Yemen have used poison gas and called fora t They pleaded for time to test made by the domestic and for-| eign car manufacturers were U.S. Planes Hit By Ground Fire SAIGON (AP) -- Communist | ground fire hit two out of three U.S. planes flying just above the he standards were too drastic. he proposed safety ideas. | Haddon said many points ble, well - documented UN fact - finding c to investigate the allegations. In a statement over Cairo radio, Mohammed Fayek, min- ister of national guidance, said: "T have been authorized to reaffirm decisively once again on behalf of the United Arab Republic that our forces in Yemen never used poison gas bombs at any time." Saudi Arabia, which backs the royalists in the four-year- long Yemeni civil war, has ac- r and accept ment. But he said his experts did not go along with all indus t sued Tuesday were in final form while eight others contain) amendments for possible adop- | successful emergency landing at tion later. One standard, that|the U.S. Special Forces camp applying to the strength and|at Khe Sanh, seven miles east): hardware for seatbelts, will go into effect as scheduled March|petween North and South Viet-\29 years," Reischauer said. He treetops along the Laotian bor- der Tuesday to defoliate jungles of the Ho Chi Minh trail. One of the twin-engined C-123 planes was shot down and the five crew members were killed, a military spokesman reported. The second place hit made a ed by his depart- ry suggestions. Twelve of the standards is- 'of the Laitian frontier and just 'south of the demilitarized zone this kind." us at least think 12 years ahead), and not get into new commit-| ments and new situations of} Two decades ago, Reischauer said, even a Communist Viet- nam would have fiercely main- tained its independence. A gov- ernment headed by Ho Chi Minh, now president of North Vietnam, probably would have taken an independent course similar to that of Yugoslavia in Europe though perhaps more extreme. Such a government would not today be an enemy of the U.S. "It wouldn't have been a seri- ous menace to us to have had Ho Chi Minh there for the last was intérviewed following a NEWS HI U.S. Ships Collide; GHL Arne samynnermeema IGHTS Two Dead HONOLULU (AP) -- Two seamen were killed and seven others injured Tuesday night collided 75 miles southeast of cise. when two U.S. Navy ships here during a training exer- Property Tax Rebate Asked TORONTO (CP) -- Elderly at a reasonable cost, more tha they require it, and yearly pr $150, says the Ontario legislat mittee on aging. ' persons should get housing n $105 a month to live on if operty tax rebates of up to ure's all-party select com. 6. Licensing powers should cused Egypt, whose forces sup- port the Yemeni republicans, of gas bomb attacks. Egypt has repeatedly denied the charges. Fayek's statement apparently was prompted by a plea from the neutral, all-Swiss Interna- tional Red Cross Committee in Geneva for all authorities in the Yemeni conflict to respect the "universally recognized humani- tarian rules of morality and law." 1G such safety devices as energy-| absorbing steering systems, seatbelts for all occupants, im- proved laminated windshields, | windshield defrosters and de-| fogging devices, hydraulic brake hoses to reduce the likelihood of | leakage, special door latches, | "4 rupture-proof fuel tanks impact protection for occupants of the car. | n The standards would require} day-long session before the Sen- am. side of the coun- : ; ' ote eee Bite OC bn ate foreign relations committee. try 80 miles south of Da Nang, a U.S. marine A-6 Intruder jet bomber dropped two 250-pcund bombs by mistake on a marine company position early today, killing one marine and wound- Secret Talks, e oe Oa: said the| Rome, Russ? Intruder was making a radar-| i : controlled night strike on a Viet} VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Cong mortar position. | i v | jare believed preparing secret! Trio Escapes From Ice Floe ORILLIA (CP) -- Two men and a woman stepped ashore from an ice floe today after al- UNDER COPYRIGHT... O Canada, A Wordless Anthem? OTTAWA (CP)--The Engiisn most 24 hours adrift on Lake /jjyrics of O Canada are under Simcoe. ' Albert Mount, 35, his Bernice, 31, and Laverne Mar- } law, spent the night huddled to- gether in an ice-fishing hut. | Wind broke their floe away from the shoreline Tuesday Jackson's Point, 15 miles south| of here. The wind changed rection early today and blew the|™ floe back to the south shores of the lake. J \a atjada jod Save the Queen the royaljten in 1908 by a Montreal €X-|royalties on the sale of "sheet as been on the Com-|chequer court justice named! music, licences, etc.," go to qi-janthem h r s ons order paper since Jan. 9.)Robert Stanley Weir. ss | The news could reinforce ar-jten by chand, 29, all of nearby Peffer-| ments for a wordless nationalland the music by Calixa La- 1g nthem. A resolution to make O Can- the national anthem and The next step will be to estab- | to study the music and differ-| ing English and French ver- _ leopyright until 1976, the govern-|sions. wife) ment has been told. The French lyrics were writ- Sir Adolphe Routhier valee about 1880. Neither under copyright. The English lyrics were writ- is | The copyright of the Weir |lish a parliamentary committeeltext is owned by Gordon V.lowners of the Weir version of IN FORCE UNTIL 1976 |talks that could lead to a new jera in the Roman Catholic | Church's relations with the) Thompson Limited, the Toronto|O Canada, we will be consulted) music publishing firm has ad-|and our permission will be re- vised the government. quested when consideration is! "Judge Weir died. Aug. 20,/being given to changes or alter- 1926, so the copyright is still injations in this copyright text," force until 1976--50 years after|the letter says. his death," the firm says. Prime Minister Pearson him- ESTATE COLLECTS jself has suggested that the Weir The letter advises version, which contains the phrase "'stand on guard" five times in the first verse, could! be improved. | A number of alterations have| been sent to MPs and likely that all the Weir estate. "We trust that, as copyright Communists. Vatican circles consider that) = meetings on a "technical level"| are one of the most likely de- velopments from. Pope Paul's| will be turned over to the coni-;Meeting Monday with Soviet) mittee for consideration once/| President Nikolai Podgorny, the it is established. jhighest ranking Communist : 'i jever received by a pope. ro tlie yao pest These circles emphasized that in the Commons that the music|'¢¥elopments were still at an]; of O Canada alone be adopted as the anthem in Centennial Year. In that way, an emotionally- charged debate about the lyrics could be avoided until the mat- ter had simmered down, say by 1977 |tiations that resulted would be} protracted. But they said the! Vatican' and the Russians) seemed to be moving toward an| of reciprocal diplomatic repre-| sentation short of an exchange of ambassadors. ¢ t Vatican and the Soviet Union| = F early stage and that any nego-| 2 agreement setting up some kind! 2 Strike Against French Government PARIS (Reuters) -- A 24-hour general strike against government pay policy brought disruption to transport and industry in France today. Many office workers rode to work in Paris in army trucks as bus and train 'services in the capital were cut to about one-third. Taxis were hard to find and traffic jams built up at some main road junctions on the city's edge, .. In THE TIMES Today .. Hamilton Trades Frank Cosentino--P, 10 Church To Study Building Plan--P, 5 = Red Cross Considers New Building--P. 17 Ann Londers--18 City News--17 Classified --26 to 29 Comics--32 Editorial--4 Financial--7 Obits--29 Sports--10, 1] Theotre--14 Weather--2 Whitby, Ajax----5 Women's--18, 19, 20 1867 U 1967 CENTENNIAL FEATURE -- Pacific Scandal nearly wrecked Sir John A.'s plans for Confed- eration and his career--P, 24

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